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DELICATA= "Tantalizing: 
CREEPING EVERBLOOM. Large Flowering Running Rose. 10-20 feet. 
(Brownell 1939.) Flowers are double, hybrid tea form, a translucent 
light crimson-red. We have seen it in blocm, when all other roses, with 
the approach of winter, long since had said their last farewell. 
3 for 5.00 each 2.00 
DELICATA. H.Rugosa. (1898.) 3 - 4 feet. 
The large, soft mauve-pink rugosa with the tantalizing fragrance. If you 
are a rugosa ‘‘addict’’ and do not grow Delicata, you should. I have 
seen only one that is prettier. (Sorry you'll have to wait for that one.) 
3 for 4.50 ecchuieas 
DESIREE PARMENTIER. Galica. 4-5 feet. (Day-zeer-ay Par-mon-tyay.) 
A double, globular rose of distinctive type, both because of the unusual 
color variation between old and new foliage, with the enlivening red 
prickles .. . and the many tones of carmine, violet and almost black in 
the open flower. A great favorite of ‘Hon. Secretary,’ and she should 
know. 2.00 
DUCHESSE de BRABANT. Tea. (1857.) 5 - 6 feet. (Bra-bon.) 
This delightful old tea rose is best described by Mrs. Keays, writing in 
“Old Roses,”” 1935, “Duchesse de Brabant has the shape of a deep, firm cup, 
more like a tulip, with 45 upright petals. Light gives a pearly cast over the basic 
pink color deepening to bright rose, and creates a glistening brightness in the smooth, 
transparent petals of the large, well-stemmed bloom ... this Duchesse has been 
a great favorite for years for its lovely sunny color, its splendid fragrance, and its 
free-blooming habit.” 17S 
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